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question, at least in New York Her
collection is a very fine one, but pearls,
even after they are gotten, have to be as
carefully attended as do pretty girls
they must never be allowed to suffer
from the least exposure to the weather
and they must be carefully put away
when their resting time comes in the
finest cotton or wool. l scarcely think,
knowing how perishable pearls are, and
how frightfully expensive the fine ones
are, and, it may be added, how trying to
wear, that the vogue predicted will be
theirs.
1t would almost seem as If nowadays
no matter what we scratched we evoke,
if not a Tartar, at least Russian, for
all the fashionable plays and novels
and, wherever it is possible, all the
fashionable luncheons or teas, have
dash of something Russian in them. In
the novels and plays it is usually a
detective, a Nihilist and a devoted
woman, an altogether charming COM
bination. At the teas it is at least lemon
in ones "cup that cheers" and too often
Kummel and Russian cigarettes. Super
sensitive women think it better form
not to have the last, but the immensely
smart girl who talks about landing her
man" and fetching the boys in on
their way home" offers these Law
pains. What else the season may bring
that is Russian 1 cannot say, but I really
do think 1t wouldn't be half so bad If the
Russian habit of beating refractory
wife were introduced and its use made
general. The tongue may be mightier
than the sword outside of Russia, but
where the feminine tongue wags too
wildly and too often the knout is usually
found of greater Importance in subduing
1t than either pen or sword. Russian
funerals are said to be larky beyond de-
scription-baked meats and fancy drinks
obtaining largely. So there is no harm,
is there, in wishing to be buried Ia
Russe? Bah.
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stretch without great WEAKNESS. Every
day thereafter he will be able to add
few miles to his trip until before long he
finds himself competent to ride several
hours day. A good machine with such
fixtures and extras as most men require
can be obtained for less than $780, Be-
yond the machine itself the outfit is simple.
There is no necessity of carrying
great amount of baggage. The best plan
is to go as primitively as possible, depend
ing for shelter at night on farm houses by
the way, or the best cheap country hotels.
great deal of the fun of touring on a
bicycle comes from the novel conditions
rest where he happens to find them. 1t
Is possible to carry limited amount of
baggage strapped to the machine, but it
is advisable to make it include no more
than one or two changes of undercloth-
ing, and the few tools essential to repair
ing the machine in case of accident.
There is little probability of serious
trouble from accident. A well-made
machine will endure a good deal of
rough usage without giving way, and as
rule regular oiling is all that is needed
to keep it in proper condition.
"How long tour can l take in two
weeks?" asks the man whose vacation
period is limited. The very beginner at
bicycling may look forward to fifty
miles day on reasonably level roads. 1t
would not be at all surprising if he
should find that eighty or more miles
could be covered in day. 1t would be
fatiguing to go at that rate during the
first tour unless man took to the pecu-
liarities of bicycling naturally; but tour
of 500 or 900 miles in two weeks is per-
fectly practicable and would undoubt-
eddy prove pleasant over any stretch of
country. A circuit route is the most adj
visable-one that will enable a nder to
spend his whole vacation on the wheel,
returning home on the last day of allow
ance, and yet not traversing any portion
of the way twice. Speaking of distances,
it may be recalled that in the early days
of bicycling London wheelman rode
from the metropolis to John O'Groat's
House in fourteen consecutive days.
The distance is 800 miles, and it takes
but glance at the map to show that for
portion of the way the roads are at
least billy, and it is the fact that for a
much longer distance than appears
the roads are of the hardest kind
for bicycling. Nevertheless, the run
has become popular one for English
wheelmen, and since the first trip
alluded to the distance has been
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cottages or small farm-houses adjacent to
their own lands.
1t is this absence of cottages or scattered
farm-houses, as well as the absence of hedge
rows or of hedge-row timber, that makes the
country look so bare, so deserted. so dreary.
And it has had this bad effect upon the
character of the Cypriote peasant: that as
he. though a mere cultivator, does not live
on his land, he regards his agricultural ope-
!ations as nothing but toll and burden,
and seeks his enjoyment and spends the
greater part of his time in the cafe of his
village. He has no homestead, for he lives
in a street. He has never heard of an out
door game. He has never struck q
ball, or shot an arrow, or run a
and he would be afraid of the cold
water if he had. He has no trees to
climb, no ice to skate on, no ponds to fish in.
He sings no song; he plays neither fiddle
nor fife; he lives luxurious days with cards
and dice, with cigarettes and Turkish coffee.
CANNON board. He will not eat beef; he
will not drink milk. Nothing can exceed
the extreme frugality of his daily life.
Brown bread and raw olives, with bite of
strong hard cheese, or few green leaves of
some vegetable not usually eaten by other
people, COuelGuUt us udlly ldTc Ii ne is d
Moslem, he drinks nothing but water. If he
is Christian, he INDUCES in a little rough
wine. Meat he rarely tastes. In some vii
lagos a sheep or goat is killed from time to
time, but in others animal food is never
tasted save on rare and great occasions. A
little bacon is cured in some places, but it is
hard and poor in quality. Coffee. as pre-
pared in Cyprus, is not beverage, but mild
stimulant. It is made as thick as Spanish
chocolate. For it is not only in the matter
of food that the islander denies himself. 1t
is in everything. His house is of mud, his
furniture is NIL As to clocks. there is hardly
one in the capital, much less in the villages ::
and if anything of value was put behind the
door of villagers house, it would probably
be knocked down by the family donkey
when he was driven in for the night. Actual
poverty, indeed, in ordinary seasons-that is
to say, when there is rainfall of not less
than thirteen inches-there Is none. By
doing few days work any one can earn
enough to keep him, as he understands
being kept, for q month. The value, of the
land is so small Tin places almost nominaD
and its fertility is so great that no one need
go without his daily bread. And what
more, with the addition of few olives, does
the Cypriote want? And it is just because
his wants are so few and so easily satisfied
that he takes so little thought for the NOR
row, and that when scarcity begins to affect
him at all he is near starvation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
AT LONG BRANCH.
A NEW YORK WOMAN AT THE
FAMOUS wATERING-PLACE
All Metropolitans Pleased with This Sum-
mer Resort-Why it is Cosmopolitan-A
Pretty Girls Toast-Driving Cloaks and
Jewelry-Gossip as to Popular People.

Anybody who likes New York likes it
down here at Long Branch where am
sojourning. We are all of us immensely
fond of talking about going off to rough
it, about seeking seclusion granted by
funny little inns in the mountains, but
there is not a single real New Yorker,
male or female, who likes to get very far
from the sound of the ticker or the click
of the high-heeled boots of Fifth avenue.
In England they call this cockney in
France it is Partisan, but to my way of
thinking it is being cosmopolitan-that
is, a citizen of the world. The world
comes here and the wording naturally
follows. Green fields and pastures new
are all very nice on the stage, but people
who have sense choose, in preference to
the wayside inn, well-equipped hotel
with plenty of people in it.
Long Branch offers more than any
other watering place to the dweller out
of tents. There are beautiful drives all
about it, lovely cottages, the very best
part of the ocean, sunsets such as might
have existed before the war, and then, as
a special attribute, there is always the
greatest lot of pretty girls. The North
ern watering places differ from the
Southern and Western springs, inasmuch
as they seldom have toasted belle-one
who is heralded far and wide, to whom
all homage is paid, and whose style of
gowning, method of speech and ap-
proval of this or that make the vogue
for the season.
Who doesn't remember when beauti-
full Matte Ould reigned at the White
Sulphur? Who does not remember
how prettily she ousted her rival at the
supper party given to them both by a
number of admiring bachelors? Miss
Triplet, beautiful as a tinted Venus, re-
fused to propose toast to Miss Ould.
Miss Ould, conscious of her own ability,
was perfectly willing to propose the toast
to the rival belle; standing up, wine
glass in hand, she made such bow as
only graceful woman can make and
said: "Grace, beauty and wit make
triplet." Wasn't that clever and didn't
it take a Southern belle to do it? But 1
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Two Distinguished Women.

A female correspondent, writing about a
London entertainment, thus describes two
noted women: ELLEN Terry has dyed yell
low hair and face full of fine wrinkles that
look as if the makeup had not been washed
out of them. But she is so artistic-looklng
in spite of these things, and her face radiates
such rare intelligence, that you cannot but
admire her. Mrs. James Brown-Potter is a
fair, frail, uncertain-looking young woman,
with face like fine cameo. Her figure is
thin and square, her hair is dusty brown
touched up with reddish dye; she is rather
tall than short, and she wears her hair in
shapeless knot that looks as if she were just
out of bed. This style of hair is intended
probably for fascinating disorder, and Mrs.
Potter already has her imitators in English
society. Her coral lips are always parted to
show her perfect teeth, and she wears look
of being prepared to fascinate. Chicago
I1.ihlLne.
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GOLDEN THOUGHTS.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a
little.
Good temper, like sunny day, sheds a
brightness over everything. 1t is the sweet
ener of toll and the soother of disquietude.
Memory can CLEAN, but can never renew.
1t brings US joy faint as the perfume of
flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that
is gone.
Never part without loving words to think
ofduring your absence. 1t may be that you
will not meet again in life.-Richter.
No statue that the rich man places osten-
tatiously in his windows is to be compared to
the little expectant face pressed against the
window pane, watching for his father when
his days work is done.
We feel our immortality o'ersweep
All time, and tears, all pain, all fears,
Pealing like the eternal thunders of the deep
This truth into our ears
Ye live forever.
You will find yourself refreshed by the
presence of cheerful people. Why not make
earnest effort to confer that pleasure on
others2 You will find halfthe battle gained
if you never allow yourself to say anything
gloomy-Lydia Maria Child.
No advanced thought, no mystical philoso-
ply, no glittering distractions, no swelling
phrases about freedom, not even science with
its marvellous inventions and discoveries, can
help us much in sustaining this republic;
still less can goddess theories of creation, or
any intidel attempts to rule out the Redeemer
from His rightful supremacy in our hearts
afford any hope of security. That way lies
despair.-Robert G. Winthrop.
Pure religion and undefled is minister
ing" not the other thing, "being minis
tered unto" 1t is handing over the morn
ing paper to another for first perusal. 1t is
vacating a pleasant seat by the fire for one
who comes in chilled. 1t is giving the most
restful armchair or sofa corner for one who
is weary. 1t is moving up in the pew to
let the newcomer sit down by the entrance
1t is rising from your place to darken the
blind when the suns rays stream in too
brightly upon some face in the circle. 1t is
giving up your own comfort and convenience
every time for the comfort and convenience
of another. This is at once true courtesy
and real Christianity. Rev. A. L. Stone
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A Noted Woman.

Mrs. Jeanette NJ. Thurber, whose name
is known all over the country in connection
with the National Opera Company, is a
handsome brunette with large hazel eyes
and dazzling teeth. She wears her hair
combed high off her forehead in the style
known as that of La Pompadour. Her skirts
are like the skirts of any other woman's
dress, but she wears a coat and waistcoat of
the most ultra tailor-made style, with a
turned-down linen collar, held together with
loosely-ted silk tie. Her watch-chain is
made of Egyptian scarabs, and runs through
a buttonhole from waistcoat pocket to waist
coat pocket. On her shapely hands she
wears a number of curious and valuable
rings
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
ENGLISH ADMINISTRATION.
The Ineficiency OF the Naval and Military
Forces Of the Empire.


At the naval review, one gun burst, kill
ing a man, and several ironclads ran into
each other. In the House of Commons, the
first lord has admitted that millions are an
nually wasted, and Mr.. Forwood, the able
and business-like financial secretary of the
navy, is aghast at the Augean stables. But
what remedy has the Tory government ap-
piled to all thisp 1t has created the Prince Of
Wales admiral of the feet
Our army is a disgrace to the financial good
sense Of the country. The effective force of
the German army costs 500, S45, 900; the
effective force of our army costs s73, 900, 900.
For her expenditure, Germany gets nineteen
corps d a,naee of 81 900 each; Says General
Brackenbury 1--WE should hardly be able
80 600 men" 1t is true that the German is a
conscript army. A German soldier gets AID.
per diem an English soldier gets Is. I'd. per
diem. But even if full allowance be made
for this, the cost of the two armies is in pro-
portion to their numerical strength as two is
to one.
Is this surprising2 Putting aside the reck-
less waste owing to maladministrttion, we
have 100 generals who are unemp eyed
whilst in Germany no man is ever made a
general until there is employment for him.
The difference, too, in the rate of pay may
be gathered from one fact: the commander
in-chief of our army gets 5000 per annum,
and Marshal Won Moltke gets Ell 600; and
yet, with all respect to the Duke of Cam
bridge. it can hardly be said that as a COM
mander-in-chief his royal highness is worth
four times as much as Moltke.-London
Truth
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brunettes just as the decorative anchors
and shields in ornamental gardening are
composed of shaded coleus.
There are without exception a number
of the most beautiful Jewesses have
ever seen. They have exquisite eyes,
large, soft and lustrous; their figures are
perfection, their movements are graceful,
and, most interesting of all to woman,
their gowns are fetching to the finest
degree.
Why is it that in America the Jews do
not marry among the Gentiles as freely
as they do in England or France? 1t is
curious, too, because here no rule of state
religion obtains that would oblige Gen
tile to marry among his own kind. The
last Duchess de Richelieu, blonde with
very dark eyes, was Mademoiselle
Heine, the daughter of the rich banker;
in London, the Countess of Desart, the
daughter of another banker, the wealthy
Bishoffsheim the Duchess of St. Adams
was one of the Osbornes, the Countess
of Rosebery Rothschild, and her son
is given the Hebraic name of Meyer
one that has always been fav orite and
counted lucky among the Rothschilds.
Occasionally intermarriages do take
place, and then they cause great deal of
talk. Last winter whenever talry-like
girl was pointed out at the smart balls
in Philadelphia, and an immense deal of
whispering followed the telling of ner
name, one might always be pretty certain
that 1t was Mrs. Sol. Levy, the young
wife of the very rich broker of whom it
is curiously related that she, Catholic
girl, was married to Jew by the mayor
of Philadelphia in Holy Week. 1t GER
tainly did seem as if they were making
every effort to show that neither of them
had any regard whatever for ceremonials
or special seasons. Mr.. Levy's sister,
one of the most beautiful women in New
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covered several times in considerably
shorter time.
Mr.. Henry c. Clark, of New York, is
one of the most persistent tourists on
the wheel. He had all manner of expe-
riences in the pursuit of his diversion,
and in speaking of some of them he
said:
"Most of the adventures one meets
with in country tour are pleasant, and
all of them are interesting. The I'M
pleasant comes now and then when one
gets caught in desert spot in sudden
shower by which he is not only thor
oughly drenched but impeded in his
course, for the rain generally softens a
country road until travel over it on a
bicycle is next to impossible. Walking
and pushing the machine for few miles
are then in order, but in such an event it
is always the wise and proper thing to
stop at the first house and seek for shelter
and refreshment. You will find that a
welcome awaits the bicycler almost
everywhere. The novelty of the ma
chine has not yet worn off in the coun-
try, and many farmer is glad to set be-
fore you the best of his larder if only
you will show him how the burned thing
works. remember once having
climbed long hill in Vermont. 1t was
near shutdown, and I was tired with
long jaunt and the recent hill. So 1
stopped at the roadside for time rest
ing and enjoying the scenery. Presently
the rattle of country wagon reached
my ear. A farmer had been to the vii
lage and was returning home. When he
got to the top of the hill he saw me and
reined his nag, looking at me curl
iously. I had learned that the best way
to make friends with all people is to make
the advances, so sang out Good even
ing, neighbour How DIDO, how d'doT
he responded quickly; 'goin fur? That
depends 1 answered, 'on how far it is to
the nearest place where can put up for
the night 'Huhp he grunted, then in
sinuatingly, I've seed suveral of them
shebangs scootin' cross country, but 1
never got eyes on one near to afore. Let's
see how we git on to it, will YEP So
mounted, rode forward rod or two,
turned about and came back to where he
sat wondering and admiring. 4 s'pose
them things can git along mighty FAST
he said reflectively, but eff we was to hev
race now, 'twould make it clear to me
how fast ye kin go. What dye say to
brush's fur's the big oak yender?' 1
agreed and we started. He was evil
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
THE CYPRIOTES.
A Country Where None Are Rich or Poor,
But All Live in Squalor.

A Country Where None Are Rich or Poor,
But All Live in Squalor.
The most striking popularity of rural Cy-
prus is the absence of isolated buildings of
any kind. There is not even roadside inn
in the whole country. Beyond a few chift-
hks Qarms)-huge buildings. always untidy,
now ruinous, where Turkish landlords used
to live in the days when exceptional immu-
mites enabled Turkish landlords to live at all
there is not a farmstead, not a homestead,
not detached cottage in the island. The
peasants, or cultivators, live in poor and I'M
lovely villages; and between one village and
another, often considerable distance, there
is not house to be seen, not shed, not a
tree, not hedge not a road usually not
one single human being The people are by
nature both sociable and timid; and in
Turkish times they may have had good rea-
son for preferring the comparative safety of
aggregation in villages to the convenience
and independence of dwelling in detached
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-03
A PRINTER REPORTING.
How He Described a Militia Drill in Com
pOsing-rOom Lingo.

pOsing-rOOm Lingo.
One day during the encampment the man
aging editor found he was short of man to
report part of the proceedings on the
grounds. Spying the foreman of the com
posing room, he requested him to take notes
of company drill and this is the way he
did it:
promptly at four o'clock the company
marched upon the ground and were received
by burst of applause. Immediately the
father of the chapel called time and the
foreman of the company began to call off by
slugs. When he called out Slug they I'M
fixed bayonets and kept on through the
manual by numbers. The company was
made up of numerous wrong fonts, there
being plea man alongside of a minion one
and BREWER boy alongside of a nonpareil
one. In company front the line was very
unevenly justified, there being three-em
space between some members, while between
Others there was three EN- quad. In pla
toon movements the fellow who acted as
right hyphen slipped below the line
and all three of the proof-readers commenced
to mark errors. In wheeling left in circle
one handful got badly squabbled and when
they went to call off phalanx of four to
send to the front and center the whole form
got pied, and the proof-readers and copy
holders again got their work in. In march
ing in columns of fours another bad COM
pany error was made. Some thought they
had got price-and-a-half table off the file
while others evidently thought that they had
struck four columns of figures and words
and put in period when they should only
have used a comma in making time around
the drill ground. When the assistant fore
man was ordered to make up a four-page
form he made serious error, having only a
plea between two pages, while between others
there was four-line plea. In marching in
double rank the first three lines were solid,
while the remainder were loaded and double
loaded, which is not in accordance with tao
tics. The foreman assistant foreman, proof
readers and copy-holders all had column
rules, which some of them brandished finely.
After the three United States proof-readers
were through marking errors the company
passed out amid storm of applause. Time
q minutes, 1-64 seconds"
And he drank nothing but beer, either
HOllstOn Posi-.
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HOT WEATHER CLOTHING.
H. G. DODGE.

III, why should we suffer and broil and per-
spire
All summer in clothing that's hotter than
fire
When we, if in sensible garments arrayed,
Could laugh at one hundred or more in the
shade2
Of civilization It's proper to boast,
But when it compels us to swelter and roast,
We'd rather uncivilized be-and fool,
If that is the way only known to keep cool.
The Hindoos in nightgowns of cottons have
The Turk in bag trousers don't care for the
sun;
The Chinaman's shirt a cold wave is com
plete;
The negro, in nothing, delights in the heat.
The white man, who thinks he knows more
than the lot,
Alone commits suicide when it is hot
Just see how he's tortured and weakened
and boiled
In clothing so hated and easily soiled.
Oh! shoot the suspenders that saw through
our backs;
an ak;
Tear off the starched shirt that we tuck in
our pants;
Get rid of the heavy stiff hat-and advance,
Oh! if there is tailor inventor who'll give
A suitable dress for hot weather, he'll live
With riches and honor; in marble he'll
stand
For people to worship all over the land.